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I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like: A Comprehensive Compilation Of History's Greatest Analogies, Metaphors, And Similes (2008)

by Mardy Grothe(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0061358134 (ISBN13: 9780061358135)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Harper

review 1: “A Review Written Mainly in Metaphors (and other figurative language and things you would be better off not knowing about).This book of metaphors is an ocean of great depths and of shallows that smell sort of like fish. It is not a bad book, and the title is certainly descriptive. Dr. Grothe collects metaphors, similes, and other figurative language in the same way a supermarket acquires potato chips--wholesale. Some of the observations in this collection are as wise as the proverbial ass. Some are somber and straight-faced Puritans. Some, so sappy and wooden that the Puritans could have built the Mayflower from them. Here a few of my personal favorites. • A critic is a man who knows the way, but cannot drive the car. --Tynan• Life is a curable disease. • Calling G... moreeorge Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short. --Molly Irvin• I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. --Doug AdamsAnd here's one that came from the shallow end of the talent pool.• Life is like a marathon. If you can finish a marathon, you can do anything you like --Oprah Winfrey.Unfortunately, Grothe doesn't explain Oprah's simile in the book, so I will attempt to do it for you. Oprah seems to be saying, "Finishing all 26 miles of the Marathon is a great accomplishment; thus, since Life is like a Marathon, if you can finish your life, you will be able to accomplish anything you like, as long as it is something you can do . . . you know. . . when you're dead."As I said, this is not a bad book, but if you hunger for such things, do not attempt to devour it on one sitting. Rather, lock it away in the icebox, taking it out only to snack on late at night when you can't sleep.
review 2: "The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.""He shows all the backbone of a chocolate eclair.""Ignorance is the night of the mind.""Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.""The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.""Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull." less

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